Alert From Writer Beware
Posted: February 27, 2011 Filed under: BLOG 1 Comment »NEW ALERT FROM WRITER BEWARE: Writers’ Literary Agency & Marketing Company (formerly The Literary Agency Group)
The Literary Agency Group, a business owned or controlled by Robert M. Fletcher of Boca Raton, Florida, changed its name in February 2007 to Writers’ Literary Agency & Marketing Company (a.k.a. WL Writers’ Literary Agency).
This umbrella group includes or has included the following agencies:
Christian Literary Agency
New York Literary Agency
Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency, formerly Sydra-Techniques)
WL Children’s Agency (a.k.a. Children’s Literary Agency)
WL Poet’s Agency (a.k.a. Poet’s Literary Agency)
WL Screenplay Agency (a.k.a. The Screenplay Agency)
Writers’ Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)
Since this company began operating in 2001 under the name Sydra-Techniques, Writer Beware has received hundreds of complaints and advisories of fee-charging, editing referrals, and other questionable practices. We’re not aware that the company has a significant track record of commercial book sales under any of its names, despite its claims to the contrary.
Writers who have had trouble with Robert M. Fletcher or any of the above-named companies, and who are or were residents of the state of Florida, please get in touch with Ann Crispin at anncrispin@aol.com (or beware@sfwa.org, if the AOL address bounces), even if you have previously contacted her. Please provide complete contact information.
Thanks for your cooperation!
For more information, you can take a look at what the Attorney General says about this issue.
Scams And Scammers
Posted: February 20, 2011 Filed under: BLOG | Tags: Advance Fee Fraud, Confidence trick, Facebook, Fraud, scam, Skype, Western Union, Zynga Leave a comment »Scams are always around and with the burgeoning or the burgeoned online world still expanding, more and more scammers have sprung to life. Recently, a good friend of the editor purchased a kit and as you may already know, she just wasted a few bucks to get a useless kit with useless information.
In your quest to make money online, you may have already experienced being scammed or fallen under the trap of an online job that does not pay. It is sad that such things happen because even our company have fallen trap to such scams. No these are not the kits that scream SCAM on them but people who ask for writing jobs to be done, make the first payment which is very minimal by the way and then runs off with all the articles. This is not to crucify anyone but writers should always make sure that their clients are reliable and that you have met them in person.
Our company has been victimized a few years ago and it has affected a lot of our writers. This is something that we did not see coming even with our experience on the web.
This is a message to everyone. Do not entertain people who send you email messages. If possible, meet them first, discuss what they want to be written and when you are satisfied, go ahead with the project.
